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Valentine's Day (18)

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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James Dyson (22)

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

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George Bernard Shaw (115)

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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Jack Kerouac (6)

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

136 quotes about dreams

Ayn Rand (24)

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

321 thoughts about death

Simone Weil (25)

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

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H. L. Mencken (60)

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

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Helen Keller (31)

The highest result of education is tolerance.

210 quotes about education

Raymond Chandler (8)

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

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Henrik Ibsen (11)

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

174 views regarding experience

John Steinbeck (9)

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

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Friedrich Schiller (29)

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

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Philip James Bailey (6)

The sole equality on earth is death.

321 wisdom & wit regarding death

Carter G. Woodson (6)

The mere imparting of information is not education.

210 thoughts regarding education

Herbert Hoover (20)

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

199 quotes about freedom

Dwight L. Moody (8)

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

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George MacDonald (12)

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

321 quotes regarding death

Robert E. Lee (11)

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

210 quotes about education

Lionel Trilling (6)

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

43 sayings relating to equality

Michel de Montaigne (32)

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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Virginia Woolf (30)

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

136 thoughts about dreams